Chloe’s troop “volunteered” to do face painting at a local craft fair. They mostly just had fun drawing on their faces. 🙂

Of course she draws mustache on her face.

So happy to be home spending time with Ronaldo!

Can’t wait to go home to my family!

I attended AIGA Design Conference here in Vegas.

After 4 days of symposiums, Workshops, Exhibitions and Design fairs, I felt like my brain was about the explode with so much informations! It was exciting, inspiring, and motivating to hear from the design icons and legends in the industry as well as from the young(er) emerging designers with their perspectives. The line up of the speakers were just so amazing! I came out feeling very proud to be one of the designers in this day and age.

This is the first time I’m going on a business trip that my kids did NOT cry. I dreaded telling them thinking they’ll cry and be all sad for weeks even before I leave so I told them just two days before I was leaving. So when I told them about my trip they went from: “What? Again? How long? Oh man, do you really have to go?  Can I go with you? When do you come back? I don’t want you to go. What are you going to do there?…” To… Ok. Bye. I’ll miss you. See you later~

I mean… yes there were thousands of hugs and kisses when I was leaving… but. but. there were no tears. NO Tears.

Why do I feel so so so sad…

When I got to my hotel room, I opened my suitcase and there it was. Surprise! A letter from a mystery man. And I felt a little better. At least I still get letters… Sniff sniff. :*(

Today is Chloe’s picture day and she chose to wear the blouse she made just past summer at a sewing camp. I can’t believe she made this! I wish I couldn’t fit into it. ;P 

How cool does she look…
Yesterday was Shane’s picture day but I completely forgot about it and can’t even remember what he wore…

My Chloe packed a little snack for me this morning- brioche toast with cream cheese and hot pepper jelly. Isn’t she the sweetest?! 🙂

Dear Future Chloe,

I want to have less messy hand writing. I think it’s good because people can actually read it. Awesome, right! And to add punctuation because in 3rd grade, you (you not me) had trouble with it, and you want to become better. Also proof read(.) you have to do this cause it might have so much mistakes you’ll get bad grades. Don’t rush bad things will happened.

From Past/Present
Chloe

Bar

“I woke up in the dim room of my hotel. I stretched my aching muscles after a long night. I washed up and awakened my groggy comrades. Later we stepped out into the clean crisp Maine air, the wind blowing the salty smell of the ocean. A soft breeze blew my hair in my face. The sun shone rays of golden color, birds tweeting their soft sweet song. There was islands near Bar harbor ( Bar Island, Sheep, Porcupine Island and Bald Porcupine Island). In that heavenly morning, the tide changed marking a path to Bar Islands.  Rocks glistened in the sun. We raced to the path way. We raced among rocks overjoyed we explored puddles, snails were everywhere, tiny crabs were as white as snow. I found a huge crab shell colors like
a rainbow. Rocks of every color barnacles sticking to everything. The water was blue beautiful fresh clean water. I did not realize that we reached Bar island when we went in the emerald green trees beautiful birds singing then we went to the top. A breathtaking view of Bar harbor! It was lovely.”

Shane

“Come on Chloe get the belt hurry up” exclaimed by brother Shane. “Okay okay” I replied. I hurried up to my brother’s room took his belt and rushed down tho the kitchen/dinning room. He opened the window. I took the chair and dragged it near the window. “wait Shane, I need to tie it first. Don’t jump out the window yet.” “Okay fine then hurry up” So I tied the belt to the chain and threw the rest of the belt out the window. Then Shane sat on the window sill and … Jumped.
Just kidding. My grandpa stopped us and that was the end of that.

I’m loving the Saturday morning routine. Yoga in the morning, then Chloe’s soccer game right after, then enjoy spending the rest of the day at home with my family. Chloe and I stopped by at the market after the game and put this together for lunch.

Then we had Korean kalbi for dinner. Chloe’s been talking non stop about her grandmother’s kalbi since few weeks ago, my mom made it again. Yay!

The grill master

YUM.

We’ve been looking forward to coming here again since we visited last year.

These grapes are the sweetest!

So glad we were able to bring my parents here this year!

Corn maze

Today happens to be their Octoberfest so we decided to stay afterwards and ended up having BBQ dinner with live music.

Love my family!